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WRI at Sustainable Energy for All Forum 2017

Over 1,000 high-level representatives from government, business, civil society and international organizations will gather in New York City from April 3-5, 2017 for the 3rd Sustainable Energy for All Forum – its theme “Going Further, Faster – Together.”

WRI executives Manish Bapna and Jennifer Layke will speak on opening panels and WRI will host two working sessions, on crowdsourcing electricity supply data and financing building efficiency.

Schedule

April 3, 9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. EDTMarshalling the Evidence

Jennifer Layke, global director of WRI’s Energy Program, will join energy leaders to discuss the latest data on productivity for high-impact countries to meet the objective of doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. Jennifer will discuss progress in the buildings sector to improve efficiency and how to increase investments.

In 2016, 23 cities worked with the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) to formulate building efficiency policy commitments, demonstration projects and tracking approaches. These cities now need financing and private sector engagement to bring their commitments to fruition.

This session will see a number of city leaders pitch project proposals to financial institutional leaders with finance mechanisms that could be leveraged by cities or building owners seeking investments in building efficiency. The ensuing dialogue will aim to identify gaps and opportunities for the BEA and partners to assist cities with additional project preparation to help the city projects become investor ready.

April 4, 10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. EDTKnowledge into Action

Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director at WRI will join energy leaders to discuss action to scale clean cooking and deliver energy services to all by integrating “traditional” power regulations with renewable, decentralized and wireless energy carriers.

April 4, 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EDTMore Than a Connection: Crowdsourcing Data to Assess and Improve the Quality of Electricity Supply

Grid supply in many developing countries is struggling to keep up with demand, resulting in unreliable and inadequate electricity service. Innovative solutions like decentralized renewable energy and energy efficiency can be integrated into traditional grid services to help solve the problem. Open, granular, and credible data on the quality of supply are key to catalyzing discussion about what actions can be taken, who will benefit from them, and how results of investments can be monitored.

The goal of this session is to share experiences with collecting data on the quality of supply and improving access to electricity along multiple dimensions.